Editing Max Delbrück (section)

==Early and personal life==
[[File:Max Delbruck.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Delbrück in the early 1940s]]
Delbrück was born in [[Berlin]], [[German Empire]]. His mother was granddaughter of [[Justus von Liebig]], an eminent [[chemist]], while his father [[Hans Delbrück]] was a [[history]] professor at the [[University of Berlin]]. In 1937, Delbrück left Nazi Germany for America—first California, then Tennessee—becoming a [[Citizenship in the United States|US citizen]] in 1945.<ref name=brittanica-x1/> In 1941, he married Mary Bruce. They had four children.

Delbrück's brother Justus, a lawyer, as well as his sister [[Emmi Bonhoeffer]] were active along with his brothers-in-law [[Klaus Bonhoeffer]] and [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]] in [[German Resistance to Nazism|resistance to Nazism]]. Found guilty by the [[People's Court (Germany)|People's Court]] for roles in the [[20 July plot|July 20, 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler]], Dietrich and Klaus were executed in 1945 by the [[SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt|RSHA]]. Justus died in Soviet custody that same year. His son, Tobias Delbruck is a professor at the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich.<ref>"https://www.ini.uzh.ch/~tobi/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110002401/https://www.ini.uzh.ch/~tobi/ |date=January 10, 2023 }}"</ref> Professor Tobias Delbruck is also one of the pioneers in the domain of event cameras,<ref>"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8050295 [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8050295/]"</ref> now increasingly being deployed in dynamic vision systems.